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• 2020
  
  • November
    
    • Power consumption rises 13.38% in October!

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    • How clean is Delhi’s electricity? Not much, finds CSE study.

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    • Coimbatore: Corpn taps solar energy, saves Rs 3.63 crore on electricity bills

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    • World Wind Power Deployment Sees Some Delays in 2020 amid Covid-19.

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    • Discoms dues rose over 28% YOY

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    • Power from renewable sources jumped 31 per cent in October 2020.

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    • India can push up renewable energy the most after COVID-19: IEA

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    • Solar Manufacturing receives policy boost.

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  • October
    
    • Solar Rooftop companies move Tribunal on KERC

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    • Tangedco’s 1st hydel project in Trichy

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    • Tamil Nadu to Empanel Vendors for 5 MW of Residential Rooftop Solar Projects

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    • Floating Solar in Hydropower Projects Could Generate 7.6 TW of Energy Annually

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    • India’s total wind-solar hybrid capacity to reach 11.7 GW by 2023: Report

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    • Wind Energy arm of CLP India Raises Nearly Rs 300 Crore via Green Bonds

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    • Mahindra attracts Six investors for Its 600MW solar assets

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    • GE Renewable Energy and SB Energy hail signing one of the largest wind power projects in India

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  • September
    
    • NTPC, REC to bid for discoms in Union Territories, according to sources

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    • Western Railway Claims to have Saved Rs 3 Crore Thanks to Solar Power

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    • 6 reasons to support the clean energy drive

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    • Core sector shrinks by 9.6% in July amid graded easing of COVID-19 lockdowns

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  • August
    
    • ISTS Charges are waived for Solar and Wind Projects

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    • First Hurdle in reducing Discom debt.

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    • Every Degree rise in Heat Index leads to 187MW increase in Power Demand

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    • India’s wind, solar generation share grows 7% in H1-2020

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    • AP to set up energy conservation cells in Government departments

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    • Tangedco seeks Rs 32,682 crore to pay power producers

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    • Charges levied by Tangedco on high tension consumers are declared illegal by HC

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    • IEX to commence trading on G-TAM

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    • 'Market coupling' mechanism to foster competition in power trading, says Power Exchange India

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    • Security Deposit - Tamil Nadu Electricity Supply code

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    • Power Finance Corporation Releases Rs 30,600 Crores as Part of DISCOMs’ Liquidity Package

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    • 750 MW of Solar Projects in Andhra Pradesh Face Serious Delays

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    • Plan to use surplus land of railways to generate renewable energy

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    • Energy exchanges seek reopening of green certificate trading as APTEL looks into floor price issue

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  • May
    
    • Roof solar capacity growth falls 7% in 2019 and likely to fall further in 2020

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    • Western Coalfields Limited offers flexible spot e-auction of coal

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    • Webinar on "Solar Rooftop Regulations "

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    • Cash-strapped Coal India eyes first-ever bond issue

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    • Ensure uninterrupted electricity supply to consumers says PM Narendra Modi

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  • April
    
    • Auction, a CIL bid to exploit stressed plants: Power companies

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    • The Coimbatore Corporation is getting ready to commission its third solar plant at Ukkadam.

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    • Commission’s order on Group Captive Power Scheme

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    • Solar storage tariff spells trouble for coal

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    • Electricity Amendment Act 2020

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    • Coal India cannot offer supplier

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    • Covid 19 hit the rooftop solar companies worst

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    • BEML bags Rs 398 crore order for dump trucks from Coal India

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  • February
    
    • India set to cross 100GW renewable energy capacity mark in 2020

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    • Kerala: SmartCity project gives a push to solar power plants

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    • Govt, NTPC to sign MoU for solar park in Jaisalmer

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    • Mahindra Renewables plans 171 million investment for solar project in Rajasthan

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    • Ludhiana Smart City Mission to begin phase II of solar project soon

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    • Maharashtra: MSEDCL ups its price to woo solar power makers

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    • Solar rooftop developers prefer open access for power supply

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    • 16 mini power projects being commissioned in Meghalaya

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    • SECI's wind tender gets cold response for fourth time

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    • Renewable-thermal power scheme unlikely to attract bidders

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    • Power may get dearer for societies with solar panels

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    • Wind energy capacity addition to remain subdued this fiscal

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    • India bets on barren land, rail tracks to raise solar power capacity

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    • Madhya Pradesh: Solar plant along railway track in Bina to generate power

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    • Pollution regulator threatens to shut 14 thermal plants over emission norms

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    • POWERING INDIAN ENTERPRISE WITH ROOFTOP SOLAR

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  • January
    
    • Bihar: 9 government buildings get solar panels

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    • Inox Wind signs pact with Continuum Power Trading for 250 mw power projects

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• 2019
  
  • December
    
    • No impact of repayment delay on working capital: Sterling & Wilson Solar

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    • Coal-fired plants may have to scale down utilisation to 35% by 2022

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    • Floating solar plants to power Jalood pumping station in Indore

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    • Coal inventory at thermal power stations rose 88.6% y-o-y to 19.0 mt due to higher coal production a

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    • India reaches electricity generation capacity of 365 GW

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    • Coimbatore civic body to open its second solar power plant

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    • Tata Power seeks global investors to sell stake in renewable energy portfolio

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    • Coal-based power's market share at decade low, green energy nearly doubles

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    • Government plans new scheme to revive 24,000-MW gas power plants

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    • Tata Power-ICICI Bank JV acquires Manoj Gaur's Prayagraj power project

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    • Wind woes increase in India

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    • DRAFT

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    • India's electricity demand falls for fourth straight month

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    • More energy to renewables, more power to coal plants too

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  • November
    
    • Mahindra & Mahindra gets patent for solar power system on vehicle rooftops

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    • India may not achieve its 2022 clean energy target

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    • Gujarat sets 30,000 MW renewable energy generation target by 2022

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    • Power sector needs good dose of private investments

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    • JSW Energy aims to double capacity to 10 GW by 2024

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    • Solar developer can set up higher generation capacity than contracted

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    • Coal India invites bids for 100 MW solar project

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    • Rays Power Infra to invest ₹1,700 cr to set up 450 MW renewable projects

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    • Coal imports at major ports slip 18 pc to 51 MT

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    • Renewables to account for 55% of energy mix by 2030

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    • Adani Power Q2 profit nosedives to Rs 4 crore

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    • Wind power producers sever ties with bankrupt Senvion

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  • October
    
    • Power Discom Savings from the coporate tax cut of Rs 2500 Cr

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    • Visaka Industries to build solar battery house

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    • Gujarat's rooftop solar power scheme

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    • Govt launches portal for monitoring coal supply to power plants

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    • Thermal coal import likely to cross 200 MT in 2019-20

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    • Renewable energy capacity by 2022 to exceed 175 GW target

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    • L&T wins up to Rs 2,500 crore worth contracts from domestic, international markets

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    • India will honour energy contractual commitments

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    • Fuel supply concerns emerge at NTPC

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    • HC breather to Andhra discoms on LCs to wind, solar firms

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    • IL&FS completes sale of wind energy assets to Orix

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    • JSW, Adani, others express interest in Avantha Power arm

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    • India to Build Solar, Wind Farms Along Pakistan Border

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    • Tata Power plants among those seeking coal linkages without curbs

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    • NTPC wind energy tender receives tepid response from developers

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    • Power demand at IEX falls 26% in the last eight days

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    • Progress on stressed thermal asset resolution remains slow with only 10%

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  • September
    
    • Govt may hive off Coal India into separate listed firms to raise funds

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    • NTPC awards Rs 2,311 crore contracts to GE Steam Power

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    • Green projects hit but 60% of Rs 1 lakh crore in coal cess sits idle

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    • Core sector growth slows to 2.1% in July

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    • Coal stocks at 47 power plants reach critical levels

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    • Coal stocks at 47 power plants reach critical levels

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    • Lanco Thermal Power receive a claim of Rs 24,000 crore

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    • Over-capacity, water shortage and renewable power exerts pressure on thermal power plants

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    • Over-capacity, water shortage and renewable power exerts pressure on thermal power plants

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    • India reaches solar power target four years ahead of schedule

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    • Future thermal power plants at risk as water stress increases

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    • CIL drops plan to cut supplies to inefficient power plants

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    • Capacity utilisation to rise as power demand to hover between 6-7%

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    • Ind-Ra revises solar sector outlook to stable for FY20

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    • Power distribution sector needs drastic reforms

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    • Guj Govt Announces Changes in Solar Power Policy

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    • India's coal import declines about 4% to 19 mn tonnes in July

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    • Tata Power decommissions 500 MW unit at Trombay citing high cost

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    • Coal India trade unions will need longer strike to dent current coal stock position

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    • Coal shortage puts Rs 5 trn investment in power plants at risk

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    • Essel Group in talks with Adani to sell solar energy assets

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  • August
    
    • IOC joins NTPC, SECI, private energy firms against AP

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    • Thermal power to stay main energy source despite renewable push

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    • IIT Hyderabad develops low-cost, eco-friendly solar cells using

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    • Coal crunch shuts down three units of NTPC

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    • No bidders for NTPC

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    • Policy induce stepped-up thermal efficiency in power plants

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    • Gujarat discom seeks to stop high Adani tariff

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    • Japan cautions Andhra Pradesh against reworking green power pacts

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  • July
    
    • L&T Bags Rs 7,000 crore order for power project

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    • Andhra to revise contracts signed in Naidu’s tenure

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    • Coal to dominate India power

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    • NTPC awards Rs 2,311 crore contracts to GE Steam Power

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    • Rules for captive power plants to be amended

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    • States seek help to make power plants meet emission norms

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    • MP govt plans to set up coal power plants amid stress in sector

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    • Debt respite for Rel Infra and Power

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    • Andhra Pradesh calls meet with wind power firms to rejig tariffs

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    • Widening demand-supply gap raises average prices by 24%

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    • Increased power offerings at the Indian Energy Exchange pulls

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    • Power demand grows at 7.4%

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    • Private sector banks go easy on correspondents network

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    • Demand increases power prices by 7% in two days

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    • Wind power companies file writ against AP

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    • Coal India clears over 44% rake backlog to non-power sector consumers

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  • June
    
    • Coal supply improved

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    • RBI may shun sectoral exceptions

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    • Power generation growth likely to double in FY20

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    • Power regulators may be told not to lower tariffs of stressed plants

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    • Govt’s 100-day plan aims to re-energize India

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    • Telangana govt to buy 2000 mw additional power from NTPC

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    • Vedanta,JSW Energy bid low for stressed Odisha power project

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    • Eight EU countries to phase out coal by 2030

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    • Solar power can save you Rs 46,000 in yearly bill

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    • States may get regional power regulators

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  • May
    
    • India

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    • Coal here to stay despite India

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    • Delhi peak hour power demand

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    • Tamil Nadu discom to halt wind and solar auctions

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    • Regulatory assets of power sector stand at Rs 76,963 cr

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    • Power sector reforms - a new agenda for the new government

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    • Power sector resolution to get delayed on Supreme Court order

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    • India becomes lowest-cost producer of solar power

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  • April
    
    • Private Power Investments at Risk

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    • Tata Power & Indraprasth Gas sign pact for green energy solutions

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    • Tata Power seeks to raise tariffs for its Mundra power plant units

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    • New power tariff regulations

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    • Tata Power’s plan to transit from Non Renewable to Renewable

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    • Conserving energy for better options

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  • March
    
    • Thermal Power

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    • GERC edicts OEM & EPC particulars in project tender

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    • New cable infrastructure being considered as replacement under IPDS

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    • Solar Projects

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    • Drop in solar PPA tariffs

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    • New energy policy instills insecurity in small firms

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    • NTPC strides towards self sustainability

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    • Reforms to promote green Transmission Cables

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    • Assam taps into its Solar potential

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    • Gujarat to stop preferential treatment in awarding Wind Projects

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    • Renewable Energy groups bid aggressively for Solar projects

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  • February
    
    • Sensex, Nifty choppy on subdued global cues; ITC rises 1%

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    • IL&FS selling its Tamil Nadu assets

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    • SoftBankled SB Energy has made its first pitch for a wind tender in India

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    • Coal supplies to power plants up 7.3%: Coal ministry

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    • Grid Storage systems commissioned by Tata Power

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    • Will solar and wind prices fall further?

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    • More and more Consumers are going off grid

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    • Substation installation at sub zero temperature in Kashmir completed

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    • Solar Power lined up for 5 MW in Tamil Nadu

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    • Coal India

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    • ZoomThru

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  • January
    
    • Government to allot 10 coal mines to CIL in 2019

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    • Cabinet nod to sale of govt

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    • Existing gas based plants have no future, SBI

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    • GST on Electricity in the offing

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    • Notification

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    • OA Software Instructions

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    • Power Sector Employees in the Government to strike work

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    • PG&E, the Electricity Utility of California, has moved closer to Bankruptcy!

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    • PM to inaugurate PETROTECH 2019

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    • Energy majors adopt block chain platform for their trading.

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    • Natural death of Energy Savings Certificates

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• 2018
  
  • December
    
    • eClouds Energy LLP

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    • New Agricultural Export Policy and Electricity Business

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    • FICCI TAN ENERGY SUMMIT -2K18

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    • Compensation to consumers for unscheduled power cut

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  • November
    
    • PPAs for wind power will be cleared at new rates: KERC,

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    • Wind tariffs may fall further in next sale,

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